Word Origin & History

hurl early 13c., hurlen, probably related to Low Ger. hurreln "to throw, to dash," and E.Fris. hurreln "to roar, to bluster." OED suggests all are from onomatopoeic *hurr "expressing rapid motion;" see also hurry. For difference between hurl and hurtle (which apparently were confused since early M.E.) see hurtle.

Example Sentences for hurler

By-the-by, I see you have made use of the word 'howl' (hurler).

And the people shouted, "There has never been such a hurler in this land!"

A hurler should be able to run like a hare, hide like a rabbit, leap like a kangaroo, and climb like a monkey.

He is the hurler of javelins who makes feeble the hands of the foe; those whom he strikes never more lift the lance.

Indra, the hurler of the thunder-bolt, had fought with the tribes whose offering of Soma he had drunk.

The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck.

At one time he had kept the ball up for as good as half-an-hour, when Shemus cried out, 'Well done, my hurler!'